'The new normal': Governor on California fires
December 10, 2017 20:52
California's Governor Jerry Brown has a sobering message for Southern Californians after a week of raging wildfires: This is your new normal.
A half dozen fires have collectively scorched more than 180,000 acres since last week and destroyed 792 structures, according to officials.
As 4,000 firefighters battled the largest one, the Thomas Fire, the governor surveyed the damage in Ventura County.
"This is kind of the new normal," he said, adding that extreme fire activity will happen on a regular basis for decades.
"With climate change, some scientists are saying that Southern California is literally burning up," he said. "So we have to have the resources to combat the fires and we also have to invest in managing the vegetation and forests ... in a place that's getting hotter."
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